A mixed day of blue skies and warm sunshine and grey clouds and the strong afternoon breeze meaning by 1600 it was time to retreat from sitting in the garden.
Having yesterday started back on an exercise routine of bike riding today was walking and probably the longest we have taken. Nearly two hours. Unfortunately having taken the small camera with me to record events I find when going to take the first picture that the battery was dead.
We walked inland first rather than the usual route up to the lighthouse. Some fields are full of ready to be harvested barley and oats and many have potatoes that are well established. Some fields are a mass of plastic cloches and although we peered in through tears in the plastic we were unable to identify all that was growing. Some looked like cucumber, some possibly aubergine but with it only being young plants without any flower or fruit it was hard to distinguish. Each field has borders of a mass of bright yellow daisy wild flowers interspersed with purple. Lillian picked some as we returned home and the look lovely as a vase.
Once inland we headed for the highest point of the area where there is an old stone built look out tower with great views over the sea, which is starting to show the lovely mediterranean blue colour. From there it was down hill to the cliff tops and then down on the beach. Lillian was very good and jogged for a while, soon leaving me way behind. I caught up with her round the headland where she stood chatting to Gareth and Jacky, who we have got to know from the pub. Jacky works for Marcus Evans, the owner of Ipswich town FC. We left the beach at the lighthouse and stood and looked at the new garden area and car park that is being created on the cliff tops. We are sure it will become popular when complete as it has one of our most favourite views of the coastline.
An afternoon of not ‘pottering’ in the garden but of just sitting and admiring the results of our continual work and upkeep. Its starting to look nice and the new leaves on the bougainvillea are now sprouting at an impressive rate. Lillian caught up on her greek homework as lessons re-commence this week and I got a sunburnt forehead!
An evening in of watching Prison Break. Only five episodes to go ..... its getting tense.
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